Police seek tips to get AK-47-wielding gunman off the street

[sofa king]

119. That's the fault of the average citizen, ain't it?

Look around you. There is almost certainly a firearm within 100 meters of you right now. Nothing you can do over the course of your entire lifetime will find and remove from circulation all of the hundreds of millions of guns in the US and the world. You will never live in a time or place in America where gun murder is not a possibility.

Never.

That's not because I'm fighting you--in fact I am not, but I don't give a shit what people like you think about me and I don't need to waste my time explaining myself to you. It is because the lifetime of a gun can be measured in hundreds of years, millions are already hidden away, and nobody will ever find them all. That is what is real.

What I am fighting is the pie-in-the-sky ignorance of people like you, who would rather not think about your own safety or those around you and instead dream of a day where guns don't exist and people don't go crazy--when in fact more guns exist now than six months ago and a hundred years' worth of ammunition has already sold out in the first four months of this year. Pretending otherwise is dangerous to you and me, because you'll have to give up all of your personal freedoms (the ones we have left, if any) to fight and lose the war on guns.

And, it makes all of us look bad, because your willful ignorance automatically excludes you and people like you from any serious gun control debate--and we need people like you on the gun control side. But you wishful thinkers out there need to become familiar with the facts and reality and details of guns if you want to control them. Otherwise you're parroting the logical disconnect of the knuckledraggers from the other side, and that is not cool.

I will say it again for your benefit: the problem of guns is never going to go away. The problem of crazy ass people is never going to go away. If your "solution" does not take into account those two realities, your solution sucks and I don't want to hear it.